Pending Cook Inlet gas shortage generates new talk of importing fuel from Outside

Nat Herz, one of the top young journalists in Alaska, has started a newsletter that is worth your attention and financial support. His latest post at Northern Journal is about the pending nature gas shortage in Cook Inlet, a prospect that has enormous implications for Southcentral Alaska and Fairbanks. We’ve seen this problem before and no one has an easy answer. As Yogi Berra either did or did not say, “It’s like deja vu all over again.

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Right-wing assembly leader dumps climate change committee to start his reign

The borough assembly named tour guide Aaron Lojewski presiding officer last week. He wasted no time after the meeting in allowing a little power to go to his head, unceremoniously dumping the members of the Climate Action Committee who have worked for months on a draft plan for the borough. They did nothing wrong. They put in long hours over many months trying to come up with a reasonable plan for the community. This is not the right way to treat people.

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